# Dicte (2013)

> A newly divorced journalist returns to her hometown and reports on crimes while working through her own past.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/46416

## Facts

- Seasons: 3
- Episodes: 30
- Episode runtime: 43 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: crime, drama
- Created by: Kasper Barfoed, Elsebeth Egholm
- Network: TV 2
- Cast: Iben Hjejle, Lars Brygmann, Lærke Winther, Ditte Ylva Olsen, Lene Maria Christensen, Emilie Kruse, Dar Salim, Lars Ranthe
- TMDB rating: 7.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025899/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: bleak, somber, atmospheric, tense, melancholic

## What critics say

Audiences rate the Danish crime drama positively, valuing its journalist protagonist and small-town mystery.

## Synopsis

Dicte (2013-2016) is a Danish crime drama series created by Kasper Barfoed and Elsebeth Egholm, broadcast on TV 2 and produced by Miso Film. Iben Hjejle stars as Dicte Svendsen, a newly divorced journalist who returns to her hometown to restart her life and work through her past. Her reporting pulls her into murder investigations alongside police colleague John Wagner (Lars Brygmann) and Anne Skov Larsen (Lærke Winther), and the tension between her professional drive and her personal history gives each season its engine. Across three seasons of ten episodes each, the series unfolds as one continuing story rather than a case-of-the-week format, with each season deepening the investigations and the protagonist's relationships. The atmosphere is cold, somber and restrained, with a bleak provincial Danish setting that feels isolated and watchful. Its tone is serious and character driven, with dread and emotional weight carried by quiet domestic moments as much as by the crimes themselves. Fans of The Killing, The Bridge and Broadchurch will find resonance in its Scandinavian crime sensibility, its journalist protagonist and its slow, morally weighted storytelling.

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